- Hi, I'm Benny Fine. - I'm Ted Evans.
- And consider yourselves warned!
- Grab your 3D Maneuver Gear and defend your wall!
- We're going to be recapping the major plot points
to the first season of Attack on Titan.
- You'll be all caught up when it's time for the long-awaited season two
after watching this recap in one take and under six minutes.
- Starting now!
- Meet Eren Yeager, who lives in a town surrounded
by three gigantic walls.
- Wall Maria, Wall Rose, and Wall Sina!
- Titan 101!
- For over a hundred years, humankind have been living in settlements,
surrounded by these walls that prevent
giant human-looking and human eating creatures called Titans
from coming in. - Yeah, they're terrifying.
- Eren wishes to join the Scout regiment to see the outside world.
- The Scout regiment explores and reclaims human territories,
studies Titans and hunts them using special apparatuses.
- Which they call 3D Maneuver Gear.
- That zip them around the sky like brown coated Spider-Men.
- However, Eren's mom and adopted sister Mikasa
are against him joining up.
- Suddenly, a colossal Titan...
- Who looks like a giant picture of the human anatomy
from a seventh grade science book come to life...
- ...appears and knocks down a gate on Wall Maria.
- Several other smaller Titans break through
and start devouring hundreds of people
and driving the town into mass panic.
- Eren finds his mom pinned under their house
and watches as a Titan eats her right in front of him.
- This kid just watched his mom get eaten by a giant!
- My god! Attack on Titan!
- RIP, Eren's mom.
- Things get worse over the next year as they experience
a serious food shortage, with them not able to access
Eren's former city.
- Erin starts having weird totally foreshadowing dreams,
where his father gives him an injection of some sort and a key.
- Eren vows revenge for his mom's death
and joins the army along with Mikasa and their friend Armin.
- At the army base, Eren is introduced to a multitude of recruits,
including the loner Annie and the hotheaded Jean.
- Through training camp, he learns that in order to kill a Titan,
you must strike it in the back of its neck.
- Otherwise, they are pretty much immortal.
- He, Mikasa, and Armin decide to join the Scout regiment.
- They are assigned to the Trost District...
- One of the cities of Wall Rose...
- ...and the colossal Titan appears again and breaches another gate,
allowing a swarm of Titans inside!
- As Eren prepares to deliver a neck slash to the colossal Titan,
it poofs away in a burst of steam.
- One by one, Eren's comrades are eaten or killed by the Titans.
- Their friends are being eaten!
Actually eaten!
- This show!!!
- Even Eren gets his left leg bit off.
- Armin gets picked up by a bearded Titan
who looks like he's straight off an episode of Duck Dynasty
and is almost swallowed.
- Good news! Eren manages to drag and toss Armin out of its mouth.
- Bad news! The Titan bites off Eren's arm and swallows him whole!
- Wait, they killed off the main character already?
What the hell? - RIP, Eren.
- Armin blames himself for Eren's death, obviously.
- Mikasa tries to rally the surviving squads
and is cornered by a blond Titan.
- It's looking like certain death.
- However, another Titan appears behind her and kills the blond Titan!
- Titan on Titan crime? What is happening?!
- Not only that, but it knows Titan weak points
and completely ignores the humans.
- The rogue Titan finally collapses from the battle.
- Emerging from its body is... Eren?!
- What the [bleep]?!
- His severed leg and arm are regrown too!
- Turns out when Eren was eaten, his anger caused him
to burst out of the stomach by transforming into a Titan somehow.
- Captain Levi of the Scout regiment and his squad arrive
to help the Trost District.
- Levi looks like an average laidback soldier,
but when he's on the hunt, he becomes
a crazed wide-eyed Titan killin' badass!
- Several of the army men corner Eren,
accusing him of being a Titan in disguise!
- He replies that he has no memories of becoming a Titan
and has Armin and Mikasa defend him.
- The army men fire on them!
- Eren bites his hand and transforms himself into a Titan
to protect them from the barrage.
- It appears physical pain is one way Titan changers
can turn into their Titan forms.
- In the midst of the standoff, Eren remembers the strange dream
he had earlier.
- Apparently, it was memories of his father
telling him to go to their home's basement with a key, but why?
- He then tells them how he believes it holds the secret
to destroying the Titans.
- A second attack on them is halted by Commander Dot Pixus,
who works out a deal to have Eren help them in his Titan form.
- The deal includes clogging up a hole in the wall of the Trost District
with a giant boulder.
- Eren transforms into a Titan, but instead of pushing the boulder,
he starts attacking Mikasa!
- He can't fully control himself when he's a Titan.
- No worries though because he accidentally knocks himself out.
- Armin reaches the unconscious Titan Eren
and wakes him up by plunging a sword in his neck.
- Titan 101!
- Titan changers like Eren seem to be housed inside their Titan form
Pacific Rim style, so when they are killed as Titans,
they return to their human form.
- Time for more Titan and human killing!
- Jean, Annie, and several of the other recruits
escape from certain death.
- Eren blocks the open gate with the boulder
and is inducted into Levi's squad.
- Only rule is if he loses control of his Titan self again,
he'll be killed.
- Eren proves himself to the Military Police and Scout regiment
and trains to control his power under Levi.
- Mikasa and Armin find out that the Scout regiment
plans to reclaim Eren's hometown and find the secret
hidden in his basement.
- Many recruits choose to leave...
- Including Annie, who joins the Military Police.
- Mikasa, Armin, Jean, and others decide to join Eren
in the Scout regiment's mission.
- Next up, Wall Maria!
- During their expedition, they encounter an unusual female TItan.
- Her body can withstand their blades
and she's always protecting the back of her neck.
- She seems smarter than your average Titan!
- The female Titan captures Armin, but she leaves him alive for some reason
and continues running.
- They deduce that she must be another Titan shifter like Eren.
- Levi's squad lures the female Titan into an ambush.
- Erwin... - A commander of the Scout regiment...
- ...has his men fire hundreds of grappling hooks
into the female Titan, trap her, and try to figure out her identity.
- The female Titan screams, drawing in nearby Titans.
- The Titans then proceed to eat the female Titan body?!
- Nasty!
- The person inside of the female Titan escapes
and then transforms back into her Titan form.
- She continues to kill more of the Scout regiment.
- Eren has no choice but to transform!
- It's Eren Titan versus Female Titan! (bell dinging)
- However, the female Titan takes off Eren's Titan head
and swallows his human body.
- Man, this guy gets eaten a lot.
- Levi retrieves Eren from inside her mouth
before he can be killed, leaving the female Titan badly wounded.
- Damn it, Levi! Why are you such a badass?!
- Good news!
Eren wakes up to find himself at the Scout regiment
back at the town, safely behind Wall Sina!
- Bad news!
Erwin is summoned to the capital, where the final decision
of Eren's custody will be made.
- Oh, and remember Annie?
- Armin meets up with her and asks for help
taking Eren out of the capital.
- She reluctantly agreed and is led alongside Armin and Mikasa
to an underground tunnel.
- Annie refuses to enter as she notices Armin behaving strangely
and hidden Scouts watching her.
- Armin finally reveals his suspicion that Annie is the female Titan!
- I mean, they do have the same hair, but I did not see that coming.
- His suspicions arose when he realized that the female Titan
let him live as Annie had regarded him as one of her few friends.
- Knowing her identity is exposed, Annie transforms into a Titan.
- Eren transforms into his Titan form!
- It's Titan Eren versus Titan Annie part two!
- Eren overpowers her.
- Before he can eat her, he sees her crying and stops.
- She crystallizes herself into slumber for protection like Snow White.
- She can do that?!
- Erwin... - Who had been arrested
due to his mission's failed outcome...
- ...realizes that Annie and Eren are proof that there are humans
that can turn into Titans to be used for battle.
- In the end, Erwin's name is cleared, Eren stays with the Scout regiment,
Annie is put in custody, and everything seems calm.
- Until another Titan breaks through Wall Sina!
- Can these people ever catch a break?!
- And now you're all caught up on Attack on Titan.
- What's in Eren's basement?
- Will we ever get to see the colossal Titan again?
- How are so many of these Titans so well groomed?
They can't even figure out how to put on clothes,
much less make a sentence.
- Will you keep watching Attack on Titan?
- (both) We know we'll be!
- (both) ♪ Seid ihr das Essen? Nein, wir sind der Jäger!♪
Huh! Huh! Huh! - Iron price!
And now all the times we messed up!
(tone)
- Meet Eren Yeager, who lives in a town which is surrounded
by three gigantic walls.
- Wall Maria, Wall Rose, and Wall-- "Wall Wose"?
Wah Wose! Wah wah wee wah! - Wah whoa!
(tone)
- Eren wishes to join the Scout regiment to see the outside world.
- The Scout regiment is... (stammering)... no.
Blech.
Nom, nom, nom.
(tone)
- Now!
- Meet Eren Yeager, who lives in a small town
which is surrounded by three gigantic walls.
- Wall Maria, Wall Rose, and Wall S-- (cracking up).
(tone)
- Levi looks like an average laidback soldier,
but when he's on the hunt,
he becomes a crazed wide-eyed Titan--
(spluttering) mother [bleep]!!!
- (laughing)
(tone)
- Before he can eat her, he sees her crying and stops.
- She crystallizes herself into slumber for protection,
kind of like Snow White lying in status until the kiss comes.
(tone)
- ...studies Titans, and hunts them using special apparatuses...
- Which they call 3D Maneuver Gear...
- ...that zip 'em around like-- shit.
- Like shit?! - (cracking up)
(silence)